Caribbean Poetry: Literary and Oral

1930's-1940's -- Rise of anti-colonial consciousness in and the need for "Caribbean voices.¡¨ (London as the center)

1960¡¦s -- Emergence of the ¡§Little Tradition¡¨ aesthetic of performance (orality) and nation language (led by E. Brathwaite).

1970¡¦s -- the emergence of dub poetry,

1980's--remarkable increase of women poets